ey cognitively derive ideas and beliefs providing meaning and interpretation of themselves from their interactions with others. Our concepts are secretly implied and manifested through interactive behavior with others. Social interaction involves participation in social exchange and conduct. Humans construct views, attitudes and perceptions of themselves. They derive views, attitudes and perceptions of others. The expectations they construct of others structures their environment and provides them patterns of behavioral response which gives them, status arrangement of their social world and their relationships within it. They elaborate and recognize their self from results of their social participations. Patterns of social behaviors are traditionally described as roles in a social organization. Roles are the social opportunities for expression of self. Not to be too psychological on the subject of self, but psychology has everything to do with our cognitive self. The way we feel about our social context is how we construct personal perceptions of our selves, whether it be idealistic or not.According to Plato, the self has a body and a soul, the physical and mental self. The body is imperfect. "It is a flawed, material kind of thing. All information which flows through it is confused." (Silverthorne) On the other hand, Plato believes that the soul is; "Perfect and immortal."(Silverthorne) Plato believes in the fact of two separate planes of self. He also believes that through social interaction we acquire knowledge about self, and obtain the ability to criticize our own conceptual ideologies of self. If the soul is pure and perfect as Plato points out, and is separate from that of the body, than we must exist on two separate planes. Gotama's position, according to Buddha is, "flatly contradicted by our own immediate experience of initiative and effort in overcoming evil tendencies. If there is any experiential truth in ...
